Re: How you pronunce foreign place names

> While we're on the subject of pronouncing foreign
> place names, how do you pronounce Kabul, the
> capital of Afganistan?
>
> When the Soviets invaded Afganistan in the 1980s,
> newscasters called it /kA'bul/, but after the United
> States occupied it after Sept. 11, newscasters now
> pronounce it the same as the English word "cobble."